| Abdulhamid Abdalla spent his childhood in the country as a farmer´s son with a lot of brothers and sisters, with sheep, goats and chicken, living with nature and the rhythm of the seasons. Also when he was grown up, visiting his parents in his home village always gave him new inspiration for his art.The live in the desert-like landscape has deeply influenced his kind of painting. So for a lot of his pictures Hamid prefers the colours of dry earth and ripe corn. Like flowers in the desert singular colour-spots are setting shiny accents.Partly the artist himself produces his colours with natural materials he finds outside. Sometimes straw or sand, mixed into the colours, gives the surface of his paintings a lively structure. It is one special remembrance of his childhood that gave Hamid this idea: Every summer his father was mending the damages of the farmhouse with a pulp of loam, which Hamid and his brothers and sisters made by mixing loamy soil and water with their naked feet.The pictures have their origin in momentary moods of his soul which the artist wants to make visible. His art is full of signs and symbols, but Abdulhamid Abdalla always gives them a very special individual meaning. He is using those of the old Kurdish culture and religion as well as other known or self-created symbols. | |
